I’ve found it’s better to focus on people’s actions, rather than the people themselves. i.e. if I tell someone they as a person are a problem, that’s very hard for them to change. If I tell them their action is a problem, that’s a lot easier.
ofc it may still be tough to change their action, but at least it makes them consider why they are commiting that action, and it may even lead to the realization that (often) the problem is systemic.
I did. That’s why I don’t have 3 kids and a mortgage.
According to https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-milk-of-human-kindness/ (both story above and the real),Kelly was just have a break,the girl’s illness was also not serious,Kelly paid it himself same as he did to many other patients that were not rich.
Yeah, that’s pretty interesting, sounds like the historical Howard Kelly over-charged the wealthy so he could provide free or reduced-fee services to lower-income people. Too bad the “dramatized” version of the story didn’t focus on that!
Can you recomment some good image-editing sofrware for phones? I haven’t found any that work for me yet. Thanks.
Yeah I was gonna say this. Even just focusing on Lemmy/Piefed, when I’m on the phone I’m just scrolling, maybe sometimes making a short comment. When I’m on the PC I’m editing images to post, or typing longer comments.
In the video, Jackson and the other dancers perform a lean that appears physically impossible.[17] The dancers lean forward 45 degrees with their backs straight and feet flat on the floor, and hold the pose before returning upright.[17] The lean moves the body’s center of mass further than it can support.[17] The illusion was achieved using cables and a harness.[18][19] In October 1993, Jackson’s team patented a method of performing the lean in concert using specially designed shoes that hook into pegs that rise from the stage.[17] Even with the shoes, the move requires good athletic core strength.[19]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth_Criminal
So you could do it in public without the apparatus, if you had the specially designed shoes and placed the hooks ahead of time. (and had good core strength)
I choose:
The Moriori people of the Chatham Islands … strapped [their dead] to young trees in the forest. In time, the tree grew into and through the bones, making them one.
Story idea: a criminal organization focused on giving people the funerals/burials they want, regardless of legality.
Choices we make em
Chances we take em
Some are mistakes
Some we celebrate em
We don’t look back 'cause
So much we’re facing
I always stay proud of myself
I’m yelling: FUCK REGRET!
Oh. Uh… I thought it was supposed to be funny in the “me_irl” way…
iird when I was a kid, those booted off of floppies. First time I saw one booting off a hard drive I knew the future had arrived.
Everyone has their first experience with enshittification. For a lot of people, Reddit was their first.
Maybe they will take us along as servants? Oh, no, they will build robots for that…
Let me know when the first colony is formed, then I can get excited.
It will only be open to billionaires. Or to people there to make money for billionaires. That’s why I’m not excited.
I don’t really like manga, but one of the best stories I’ve ever read in any format is the 7-volume Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. It’s post-apocalyptic fantasy about the nature of evil, the corruption of humanity, the extent to which individuals can fight against historical forces, and the fragility of civilization, for a start. Plus there’s a lot of action and world-building. There’s an anime movie which covers about one tenth of the story, if you want to get a feel for it.
Recently I’ve been thinking one of the best things Alan Moore has written is the original 12-issue series Top 10. It just has certain characters and events that stuck in my mind.
I think we fundamentally agree, and are now just debating tactics. Personally I’ve found that telling someone they’re evil makes it easy for them to dismiss my opinion completely.